Gloria!!

A new set from Alex, combining some single sculpts that never made it into other sets. As the titel suggests one, the younger kneling bod is getting a knighthood from the old veteran knight.

Hello to Jonathan leboeuf  (twitter? ) thanks for following :-D
Hello to Ironbovin from MUCH to little time blog.  He´s just started with blogging and is doing a great job with the 20mm bods :-D
Hello to Sada from Page of Sada´s Hobby blog.. I like the look of napoleonic warships..but never have been able to get my finger out to attempt one..sada on the other hand has a complete fleet!!!!
Hell to Justin. Justin has 3 blogs..one of which has adult content, what, I´m not sure..I didn´t look..honest! and the others for Marketing.

Strelets Mamelukes

Exactly which unit these are or which exact period I don´t really know ..which gave me a bit of free range on the colours..:-D Nice set...the horses have some  great detail and they all, bods and nags  look like they are involved in a charge..Very little flash to deal with and the detail is very good. I´ll have to get them based up..

The boss, who I have nicknamed  Sumbhajee Angria (and so, we shall go to war!! )

I gave them a general colour scheme..I suppose they are after all one unit. The bod in green, second from the left, his sabre broke off during the shoot.  :-(  Still..it´s repairable :-D

Close up of Sumbhajee, standard bearer and next to them, two chainmail wearing bods..the one with the lance carries a bow and quiver...

Strelets Norman Knights

Another addition to my red and white norman army...the knights set from strelets
Some of the horses look a bit sedate for a group of cavalry charging or in battle so they will get swopped for ones from the Norman cavalry on the march 

Lances swopped for florist wire

Medieval Bombard 2a

The Mainly Military Bombard  with crew added.

The Man voted "most likely to go deaf"

Medieval Bombard 2

Just when you think there aren´t any more to be had..another one pops up..This was sent to me by jmchasco..who runs a nice little blog and web shop called  1/72 Miniatures...I will be "hanging " around there as well in the future :-D 
This two piece Resin mini dio is made by Mainly Military. I´ve never heard of them before but they do quite a range of houses etc..

I´ve added a bit of static grass and some Noch flowers

The set up comes with sacks..

.....and cart with cannon balls already attached to the dio. At first I thought this would make it difficult to paint but it was quite easy..half an hour in total.

It has ice little details like the broken boards shown here. Wether this was deliberate from the sculptor or not, I don´t know but I do know that Ye olde health and safety wouldn´t be too happy about it!!

I could have drilled the barrel out..but why ruin such a nice little piece..

Here with an Orion Medieval siege troops bod.

And here, the gun taken off and used as a field  gun.

Strelets Sarmatian cavalry

This set is still in the master sprues stage and hasn´t been released yet but I have the fun and privilage of getting to have a bash at painting it now....Many thanks to STRELETS for allowing me the honour to do so. :-D

The whole colourfull gang

Boss and his mates

Missile bods. I managed to cut the front of the javelin off and had to replace the whole thing with a pin.

my two favourite bods from the set...:-D

Based for Impetus (sorry, pic a bit dark)

A nice set, which I guess could be used for Sythians and others. The riders need thier legs bending slightly outwards to fit them on the nags but it´s not a real problem. Very little flash and some nice details, especially on the horses. The Kontos could be a wee bit longer but it also would pose no problem if either in the set were to be replaced. The only real problem I had was finding any pics on the web as a reference to paint them..
A great partner set to these, would be some female warriors.
Both Herodotus and Hippocrates report on them being a large part of the Sarmatian army as is confirmed by sarmatian graves found with females in military clothing

Jars, vases, amphorae and more

From BAUEDA WARGAMES, who do some lovely stuff...their tents and buildings range is great..like this medieval tent

These lovely pots etc, are new and are for 28mm but some are definately usefull for 20mm...

...and these are for 15mm but certainly usefull for 20mm

Nag conversion

A bit of cross breeding using the front end of a nag from the Zvezda macedonian cavalry (top row the one on the right) and the back end of a Zvezda Republican Roman cavalry (bottom row the one on the left)

And to anonmymous´s comment from my last post, you are probably right about the basing, we can´t be good at everything, but at least I have the guts to put my name to it.

Strelets Norman Archers

Another little bit of my Norman army finished and still following the principle of no repeat bods in any armies.
I like the way the set is divided neatly (per sprue) into 4 armoured archers, 4 unarmoured firing and 4 reloading..makes for a good looking firing line. The set has a lot of potential for jumping the bods forward in time a few centuries and putting them in a 13th, 14th cent army..a head swop here and there ...:-D

Crusader cavalry

Wilfreds Huffing and Puffing has helped!!!!! :-D
Made using Italeri, Zvezda and Valdemar..I still need to add a few, Johaniters etc.

Hello To Lorenzo Calvi..thanks for following. :-D

Crusader Infantry

Looks like the poor sods have been adandoned by the cavalry and are making a last stand on a sand dune!!
Bods from Italeri, Zvezda, Revell,  Airfix, Valdemar and lots of conversions.
Nearly all the spears were replaced with florist´s wire.

Keep sounding the signal Wilfred...help will come!!

Strelets Normans on the march

As usual, a great set of original poses, and this time the spears were attached to the sprue at only two places, as can be seen here  They all carry different bits of kit, bags sacks etc and all seem pretty relaxed..as if they are on the march and not advancing into battle. Some of the standing armoured poses would make a good commanders unit